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- GLC#
- GLC00819.02-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 12 September 1787
- Author/Creator
- Constitutional Convention, 1787
- Title
- Constitution [First printing of second draft] [Committee of Style]
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 42.7 cm, Width: 51.9 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Second draft of the Constitution, by the Committee of Style, printed on recto of each leaf and tied (leaves 1-2 only) with a ribbon, uncut and unbound. With the notes of Pierce Butler. Originally bound with blue ribbon. Document has creasemarks along margin where it would have been folded along bindings. Printed by Dunlap and Claypoole. Folded measurements are 42.7 x 26.3 cm.
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